Might have beens

[Mark Thomas]

Even in his university days, Alan Krueck had unerringly homed in on Draeseke and Raff as the two romantic unsungs who above all others merited prominent places in the musical pantheon, and he never wavered from that view despite a subsequent lifetime of research into and writing about their contemporaries. Actually, although he loved Raff, he thought Draeseke the better composer of the two because of the consistently high quality of his inspiration. He felt that the masterpieces in Raff's much larger catalogue were somehow devalued by the works he thought more humdrum.